Overview
- Powai police arrested Maharashtra Navnirman Sena functionary Ganesh Chukkal and his associate Sameer Sawant and produced them in court, which granted police custody after the arrests late Friday.
- Investigators say the challenged document shows the word “three” altered to read “thirty,” and that the notary serial number is missing and the notary seal is unclear.
- The FIR alleges the signatures of three Melronia Hospitality directors were forged on the disputed paper, prompting formal cheating and forgery charges under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- The dispute traces to a June 2018 36‑month leave‑and‑license for the Powai flat, rent payments that police say stopped in October 2019, and Melronia’s 2020 termination and eviction proceedings that preceded the alleged forgery surfacing in court filings.
- The property is controlled by Melronia Hospitality, whose directors include members of the Hiranandani family, and police say forensic examination of the lease, phone records and transactions is under way as the probe seeks possible accomplices and further charges.